[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Caret on beginning of selection

[Peter Kliem <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pavel,

I faced the same problem and did not find a clean solution. I did the 
hack of subclassing the widget (StyledText in my case) and introduced a 
new method that does not reset the selection when setting the caret offset.

This solution is clearly discouraged - but works for me.

Peter

Pavel Halas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a chance in SWT Text widget to programmaticaly set a selection 
> with a caret to be on the beginning of the selection?
>
> Example: some|TEXT
>
> - "some" is a not selected part of the text in Text widget
> - "|" is a caret position
> - "TEXT" is a selected part of the text in Text widget
>
> For better understanding, it's about autocomplete functionality.
>
> Thanks for suggestions,
> Pavel Halas